“For a pirate is not included in the list of lawful enemies, but is the common enemy of all; among pirates and other men there ought be neither mutual faith nor binding oath“. Here’s what Cicero had to say about pirates. To a certain extent Italian techno maverick Shinoby acts like a pirate in the industry, moving away from the usual wakes and releasing his material on his own, via his personal platform Istheway.

Sure we could use good old clichéd terms like “uncompromising” to highlight Omar Contri’s unbowed stance towards a somehow over-calibrated techno scene that tends to rely too much on the same unchanged recipes whilst focus should be put on the flurry of exciting off-axis acts that have been emerging in recent times – Beau Wanzer, Bergsonist, Pyramid Club, Nick Klein… to name a few.